TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Scenes featuring a Japanese comedian in a program ... YouTube channel on Thursday, saying in a video that while he did invite the woman to go to a hotel, he had no intention ...

Kinoshita took to his YouTube channel on Thursday, saying in a video that while he did invite the woman to go to a hotel, he had no intention of forcing her. He apologized if the woman felt she was ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, known as Akiyo, has sparked discussion about Japan’s ageing population after deliberately committing crimes to secure a place in prison, where she finds stability and ...

Shining on the world stage, Nadeshiko Japan’s dedication to the game is a symbol of Japanese women’s football. With the vision of “Becoming the World’s Nadeshiko”, Japan Football Association (JFA) has ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

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A police car is seen in Japan. (Mainichi/Kenjiro Sato) KAGOSHIMA -- An 18-year-old high school student was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on a southwestern Japan island ...

Japan’s largest labor organization is expected to appoint a woman to its chairperson position for the first time ever. Tomoko Yoshino, 55, vice chair of Rengo, the Japanese Trade Union ...

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Takeda Pharmaceuticals has named Julie Kim as the first woman to lead the 244-year-old Japanese drugmaker, a rarity in senior management in the world’s fourth-largest economy. Kim, a US citizen ...

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